Small Boats Weak States Dirty Money: Piracy and Maritime Terrorism in the Modern World

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It has been alleged that pirates and maritime terrorists present a largely common threat to international maritime security. This book drives to the heart of this proposal by reviewing in detail each phenomenon before asking how and under what circumstances pirates and maritime terrorists might combine forces. Murphy concludes that while piracy may be a marginal problem in itself, the connections between organised piracy, wider criminal networks and corruption on land on mean that it may undermine states and ...
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It has been alleged that pirates and maritime terrorists present a largely common threat to international maritime security. This book drives to the heart of this proposal by reviewing in detail each phenomenon before asking how and under what circumstances pirates and maritime terrorists might combine forces. Murphy concludes that while piracy may be a marginal problem in itself, the connections between organised piracy, wider criminal networks and corruption on land on mean that it may undermine states and destabilise the regions in which it occurs. Furthermore, maritime criminality may disguise insurgent and terrorist activity and allow such actors greater freedom of manoeuvre. He contends also that many of the factors that encourage piracy and maritime terrorism overlap and moreover that these may also encourage and sustain the more generalised issue of maritime disorder that embraces a wide range of illegal activity. In this context Murphy suggests that maritime terrorism, although only a low-level threat currently, has the potential to spread and become more effective in the event of political change on land. Before this can happen, however, maritime terrorists and insurgents will have to overcome significant operational and technical problems and, above all, find a means of triggering a level of fear stemming from atrocities committed at sea similar to that resulting from attacks perpetrated on land if they are to achieve their political objectives.
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"The twin scourges of piracy and maritime terrorism have filled thousands of newspaper column inches and hours of news broadcasts over the past decade. Small Boats, Weak States, Dirty Money by Martin Murphy, an academic at King's College, London and a Washington think-tanker, is a valiant effort to put those stories into perspective." --Financial Times

"Murphy has produced an excellent, exhaustively researched work that should serve scholars, policy makers, and general readers well ... Highly recommended." --Choice

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781849040792
  • Publication date: 9/14/2010
  • Pages: 288
  • Product dimensions: 5.40 (w) x 8.40 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Dr Martin N. Murphy is one of the world's leading experts on piracy and irregular warfare at sea. He lives and works in Washington, DC where he advises the US Navy. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies at King's College, University of London.

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Table of Contents

Introduction
1. What is Piracy?
A slippery concept
Piracy, politics and corruption
Piracy in international law
Piracy as an international interest
Piracy: ancient and modern
2. Contemporary Piracy: The Who, The Why and The Where
What are pirates after?
Reasons for piracy
What types of ship are attacked?
Methods of attack and boarding
The cost of piracy
State piracy
How many attacks are there and who counts them?
Weaknesses with the figures
Southeast Asia
South China Sea
Bay of Bengal-Bangladesh
South America
Yacht piracy
East Africa-Somalia
West Africa-Nigeria
Global phenomenon, local problem, diffuse challenge
3. Contemporary Piracy: Irritation or Menace?
Pirate typology
Vulnerability assessment
Threat assessment
Objectives
Violence
Access to markets
Links to insurgent or terrorist groups
Level of official support and corruption
Links to organised crime
Contemporary piracy: irritation or menace?
4. Maritime Terrorism
What is terrorism?
What is maritime terrorism?
Terrorist attacks at sea: the story so far
Seafarers' attitudes
A global threat on a global medium?
Categories of maritime targets

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